Richard Alley speaks about climate change and some of the opportunities we have to build a better future by using renewable energy sources and moving away from dependence on fossil fuels. His talk was part of the symposium put on by the Smithsonian Institution and the Club of Rome to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Limits to Growth study.
Richard [...]

By Paul Krugman
The following article was originally published in the New York Times Magazine on April 7, 2010.
If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they [...]

Keynote address to the 2008 Sustainable Energy Summit, Amherst, MA
by Elizabeth R. Sawin
— June 20, 2008 —
Tonight I would like to talk about acceptance and the kind of action that flows out of acceptance.
In particular, I would like to talk about accepting the reality of climate change, the size and scope of what we must accomplish to address it, and [...]

by Elizabeth Sawin
— December 19, 2007 —
My friend Diana told me a story once about the woman who was a teacher to both of us, Donella Meadows. Dana, as we called her, was working on a book chapter about food and hunger, and Diana, her research assistant, had just provided her with a stack of graphs about grain yields and [...]

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